> It's all just numbers getting updated in a giant database somewhere, over and over until someone cashes out and actually spends that money to buy groceries or something.

send me your numbers then edgelord... o wait theyre not just numbers now that Ive asked for some. Go read up on futures markets - they were invented to service a legitimate, real world problem - yes deriviative markets of today have become abstract but its no as black and white as capitalists vs us.